Quotes About Intelligence

How victory may be produced for them out of the enemy's own tactics - that is what the multitude cannot comprehend.

masking strength with weakness is to be effected by tactical dispositions.

5) Which army is stronger?

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He who only sees the obvious, wins his battles with difficulty; he who looks below the surface of things, wins with ease.

Spies are a most important element in water, because on them depends an army's ability to move.

Toda guerra se basa en el engaño.

If I am able to determine the enemy's dispositions while at the same time I conceal my own then I can concentrate and he must divide.

The crux of military operations lies in the pretense of accommodating one's self to the designs of the enemy.

The highest form of warfare Is to attack Strategy itself;

conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains.

Él debe ser capaz de confundir a sus oficiales y soldados con informes y presentaciones falsas, y así mantenerlos en la ignorancia total.

But while it's tempting to project onto dolphins all the superpowers we wish we had ourselves, I knew (on an intellectual level, anyway), that these were creatures who have it in them to be cranky and withdrawn and have their own version of a bad day.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.

It's good to learn stuff. It keeps us young.

Our intelligence, even our genius, is not given to us so we can brag or take credit for it. It is given to us so that we can be of service to others in some meaningful way.

My ignorance is not charming.

what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

A six-week trip to China in 1973 convinced me—if I needed convincing—that the autonomy of the aesthetic is something to be protected, and cherished, as indispensable nourishment to intelligence. But a decade-long residence in the 1960s, with its inexorable conversion of moral and political radicalisms into "style," has convinced me of the perils of over- generalizing the aesthetic view of the world.

Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.

The only thing anyone inherits by right of birth in the Soviet Union is congenital idiocy.

Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and concerns.

doormats. It was true that actors had a perception, an understanding of human motive, that normal people lacked. It had nothing to do with intelligence, and very little to do with education.